The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
Chapter 101, 11 verses
The (Day) of Noise and Clamour:
The Striking Calamity -
AlqariAAatu
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Qari'ah (the striking Hour i.e. the Day of Resurrection).
What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour?
What is the Striking Calamity?
Ma alqariAAatu
What is the striking (Hour)?
And what will explain to thee what the (Day) of Noise and Clamour is?
And what can make you know what is the Striking Calamity?
Wama adraka ma alqariAAatu
And what will make you know what the striking (Hour) is?
(It is) a Day whereon men will be like moths scattered about,
It is the Day when people will be like moths, dispersed,
Yawma yakoonu alnnasu kaalfarashi almabthoothi
It is a Day whereon mankind will be like moths scattered about.
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.
Watakoonu aljibalu kaalAAihni almanfooshi
And the mountains will be like carded wool.
Then, he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) heavy,
Then as for one whose scales are heavy [with good deeds],
Faamma man thaqulat mawazeenuhu
Then as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be heavy,
Will be in a life of good pleasure and satisfaction.
He will be in a pleasant life.
Fahuwa fee AAeeshatin radiyatin
He will live a pleasant life (in Paradise).
But he whose balance (of good deeds) will be (found) light, -
But as for one whose scales are light,
Waamma man khaffat mawazeenuhu
But as for him whose balance (of good deeds) will be light,
Will have his home in a (bottomless) Pit.
His refuge will be an abyss.
Faommuhu hawiyatun
He will have his home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).
And what will explain to thee what this is?
And what can make you know what that is?
Wama adraka ma hiyah
And what will make you know what it is?
(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!
It is a Fire, intensely hot.
Narun hamiyatun
(It is) a fiercely blazing Fire!